Pullen stars in Khimki’s rout of ALBA

Khimki Moscow Region blew out ALBA Berlin 72-102 on Wednesday at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Round 3 of the 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season. Khimki took its record to 2-1, while ALBA suffered its first loss and saw its record drop to 2-1. Jacob Pullen was unstoppable with 25 points for the winners. He also dished 5 assists and collected 4 steals. Sergey Monia added 16 points and10 rebounds and Egor Vialtsev and Alexey Shved scored 15 points apiece. Khimki outrebounded ALBA 42-26 and dished 25 assists, compared to just 16 for the hosts. Elmedin Kikanovic paced ALBA with 19 points, Paul Carter added 12 points and Dragan Milosavljevic 11.

Khimki raced to a 15-30 cushion after 10 minutes and continued its good form for a 40-53 advantage going into halftime. After the break, Khimki remained in control and increased its lead to 58-76 by the end of the third quarter and cruised the rest of the way.

Head Coaches

CAKI, AHMET

ALBA Berlin

“We started the EuroCup season with two wins, but we could not continue this today. Unfortunately, we played a bad game. We really prepared to show a good basketball game today, but we started with a bad performance in the first quarter. Khimki is a very good team and they took advantage of our lack of energy. We need to fight more as a team and show more energy to win games.”

IVANOVIC, DUSKO

Khimki Moscow Region

"This game was very important for us and I am happy that we won. ALBA played very good in the first two games and I expected that we would have to beat them with strong defense. We played correct defense today, but in fact we won the game with our offense. We shot high percentages, moved the ball very well and made good decisions in the one-on-one and pick-and-roll situations."